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DOJ approves T-Mobile/Sprint merger; Dish will acquire Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Sprint's prepaid business, and “certain” spectrum assets as part of the deal — After over a year of waiting in regulatory limbo — The United States Justice Department has approved …
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History of Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony, or Sprint, which transitioned to mobile, made some disastrous bets, and merged with T-Mobile — Sprint has struggled to stay alive for more than a decade, constantly fighting for that next wireless customer.| Micah Singleton / Billboard: |
Profile of Oliver Schusser, who spent 15 years at Apple building iTunes' worldwide operations from the ground up and took charge of Apple Music 15 months ago — “You hear Tim talk a lot about humanity — how we're at the crossroads between the liberal arts and technology," says Oliver Schusser.
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Inside Spotify's Project Magneto, its multiyear failed effort to create Spotify TV, a highly personalized video streaming service, and the hardware to run it — Spotify has made no secret of wanting to be the world's biggest audio platform, but it wasn't all that long ago that the Swedish streamer was eyeing video.
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Many young Instagram users have turned their accounts into “business” profiles to get detailed analytics by providing their phone number or email to the public — - Creating a ‘business’ account provides detailed analytics — Users say they are businesses, in order to get the information| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
How both sides in Hong Kong's protests use facial recognition as a weapon, with police using it for repression, and protesters using it to doxx police officers — A technology-driven quest to identify protesters and police officers has people in both groups desperate to protect their anonymity.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Interview with Facebook's ex-CSO Alex Stamos about the Stanford Internet Observatory, funded in-part by $5M from Craig Newmark, for monitoring online abuse — Alex Stamos' Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data.
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| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
A look at Earnin, an app to access money before payday with a suggested ~10% tip; critics say Earnin effectively acts as a payday lender but avoids regulations — “I definitely didn't think about the payback time and the interest,” an Earnin user said. “They just portray it as being so simple and so easy.”
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins sentenced to time served and one year of supervised release for writing and selling the Kronos banking malware — Marcus Hutchins, the malware researcher who became known as an “accidental hero” for stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
A developer based in Crimea and one based in Iran say that GitHub has “restricted” their accounts “due to US trade controls” — If you use GitHub's online services in a country facing US sanctions, you could be about to be kicked off all but the most basic offerings.
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| Satnam Narang / Tenable: |
How the tactics used by porn bots on Instagram keep evolving to avoid detection, including use of intermediary accounts and literary quotes in photo captions — Incentivized by affiliate programs, scammers are evolving how they utilize fake Instagram accounts to target users on the popular social media platform.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is rolling out a new chat-based Cortana UI for Windows 10 as a beta to Windows Insiders in the US, with support for text and voice queries — It's more conversational than before — Microsoft is tweaking how Cortana works in Windows 10. While the digital assistant might … Sponsor Posts
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